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(More customer reviews)I am lucky enough to own an original hardcover, first printing of this book! The Kindle edition is a very good and accurate version of the original. The story compels one to journey back to the hardships incurred in a North Dakota winter of old. Fascinated by the story of General Custer from an early age, my printed library of Custer-mania is quite extensive. Having written several articles for periodicals, I have been required to follow the General all over the west, to visit and photograph many of the sites noted in history. Even with my past experiences as a Custer-maniac, I thoroughly enjoyed reading Boots and Saddles on my Kindle. The only negative but not much of one, is that there are many misspellings contained within the Kindle edition. I have checked them with the original book after coming across the first few, and confirmed that they must have happened during the digital transfer. Libbie was a very good writer and her spelling was excellent...the errors were not hers.
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PREFACE.ONE of the motives that have actuated me in recalling these simple annals of our daily life, has been to give a glimpse to civilians of garrison and camp life-- about which they seem to have such a very imperfect knowledge.This ignorance exists especially with reference to anything pertaining to the cavalry, which is almost invariably stationed on the extreme frontier.The isolation of the cavalry posts makes them quite inaccessible to travellers, and the exposure incident to meeting warlike Indians does not tempt the visits of friends or even of the venturesome tourist. Our life, therefore, was often as separate from the rest of the world as if we had been living on an island in the ocean.Very little has been written regarding the domestic life of an army family, and yet I cannot believe that it is without interest; for the innumerable questions that are asked about our occupations, amusements, and mode of house-keeping, lead me to hope that the actual answers to these queries contained in this little story will be acceptable. This must also be my apology for entering in some instances so minutely into trifling perplexities and events, which went to fill up the sum of our existence.
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